Australasian anxieties -- The setback in the desert -- Penalties in Malaya -- A vote of confidence -- Cabinet changes -- The fall of Singapore -- The u-boat paradise -- The loss of the Dutch East Indies -- The invasion of Burma -- Ceylon and the Bay of Bengal -- The shipping stranglehold -- India-The Cripps Mission -- Madagascar -- American naval victories, the Coral Sea and Midway Island -- The Arctic convoys, 1942 -- The offensive in the Aether -- Malta and the desert -- "Second front now!" April, 1942 -- The Molotov visit -- My second visit to Washington -- The vote of censure -- The Eighth Army at Bay -- Decision for "Torch' -- My journey to Cairo: changes in command -- Moscow: the first meeting -- Moscow: a relationship established -- Return to Cairo -- The final shaping of "Torch" -- Suspense and strain -- Soviet "thank you" -- The Battle of Alamein -- The Torch is lit -- The Darlan episode -- Problems of victory -- Our need to meet -- The Casablanca Conference -- Adana and Tripoli -- Home to trouble -- Russia and the western allies -- Victory in Tunis -- My third visit to Washington -- Problems of war and peace -- Italy the goal.